Photoshop CS4 — diglloydMedium

This test is dominated by drive speed: the fast solid state drives used in the MPG Pro Laptop cut the time to less than one third that using the fast hard disk drive (HDD).

Even though the exact same hard disk drive (HDD) was used for the Core i7 and Core 2 Duo, the Core i7 comes out ahead. It suggests that SATA performance issues are fixed in the Core i7, improving drive performance.

Photoshop CS4 — diglloydHuge

This test is dominated by drive speed: the fast solid state drives used in the MPG Pro Laptop cut the time to about 1/4 that using the fast hard disk drive (HDD).

Even though the exact same hard disk drive (HDD) was used for the Core i7 and Core 2 Duo, the Core i7 comes out ahead. It suggests that SATA performance issues are fixed in the Core i7, improving drive performance.

diglloydHuge Benchmark seconds, lower is better

Conclusions

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With anything involving the drive significantly, there are whopping performance gains using the MPG Pro Laptop solid state drive setup.

The drive speed gains are all the more impressive since the machines all had the maximum of 8GB memory and the hard disk drive is as fast as you’ll find in a MacBook Pro. Differences between a 5400 rpm drive would be much greater.

What is also interesting however is that the Core i7 seems to do better even when a test is dominated by drives speed. This suggests that the SATA port limitations (bugs?) in the prior MacBook Pro have been addressed.